Hotel a monument to city’s devastation

IF one building was to highlight the wide-ranging nature of the damage caused by the November flooding crisis, the Kingsley Hotel would be it.

For the past eight months the luxurious 131-bed five-star facility – which has twice been named national business hotel of the year – has been a monument to the devastation continuing to affect the city.

Millions of euro has been lost to the hotel, based on the banks of the river Lee, since it was last open on the night of the floods.